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Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
John Lithgow
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John Lithgow
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
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John Arthur Lithgow
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My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.
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I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
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If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
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I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.
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Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
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For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
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I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.
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